Version Management Patents (Class 707/695)
  • Patent number: 10453014
    Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing compliance drivers to conserve system resources are provided. Data that corresponds to a pre-determined historical period may be used. A method may extract issue information, regulations data, operations loss data, drivers data, pending activities data and/or pending examinations data. The method may perform a plurality of transformations on the issue information, the drivers data, the regulations data, and the operations loss. The transformations may apply enterprise compliance hierarchy information and transform the data associated with the issue information, the drivers data, the regulations data, and the operations loss data into quarterly information. The method may include performing transformations on issue information, regulations data, operations loss data and drivers data. The method may perform final transformations in order to either allocate resources to remediate a compliance trend, remediate a compliance projection, or correct a current compliance issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok Rao, Rachel Nemecek, Matthew Prue, Kate Cibotti, Cynthia A. Nutini
  • Patent number: 10437795
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for determining at least one constraint that is to be changed as a result of a maintenance procedure that is to be performed on an application that interacts with a database system, identifying a data value of a table stored in the database as violating the at least one constraint, the table having a start release structure, moving a data object including the data value to a quarantine table that include the start release structure, editing the data value within the quarantine table to provide an edited data value that does not violate the at least one constraint, and moving the data object including the edited data value to the table, after the maintenance procedure has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Peter Eberlein, Volker Driesen
  • Patent number: 10430391
    Abstract: Techniques for activity tracking, data classification, and in-database archiving are described. Activity tracking refers to techniques that collect statistics related to user access patterns, such as the frequency or recency with which users access particular database elements. The statistics gathered through activity tracking can be supplied to data classification techniques to automatically classify the database elements or to assist users with manually classifying the database elements. Then, once the database elements have been classified, in-database archiving techniques can be employed to move database elements to different storage tiers based on the classifications. However, although the techniques related to activity tracking, data classification, and in-database archiving may be used together as described above; each technique may also be practiced separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liang Guo, Vivekanandhan Raja, Amit Ganesh, Joshua Gould
  • Patent number: 10423594
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable storage medium for updating a search engine (SE) version of a repository, the SE version of the repository maintained by a search engine system and corresponding to an SCM version of the repository maintained by an SCM system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD
    Inventors: Charles Olivier, Brent Plump, Stefan Saasen, Robin Stocker
  • Patent number: 10412176
    Abstract: In the website system of the application, when a client accesses a page of a website, a web server obtains an initial URL of a content file included in the to-be-accessed page and a version parameter of a current version of the website, generates a current URL of the content file, and adds the version parameter to a search part of the current URL of the content file, so that the client can obtain the content file from the web server according to the current URL. During version upgrade of the website, a developer does not need to change a path to a content file, does not need to manually change a URL of the content file, and does not need to update a name of the content file either. This improves website upgrading efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huibin Ma, Deping Tang, Wanqing Hu, Xiangyang Wu
  • Patent number: 10397286
    Abstract: In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for estimating the streaming rate at which data is delivered over a network. For instance, in one example, a data packet is intercepted from a data streaming session conducted between a first device and a second device connected over a network. A size of a file segment contained in the data packet is calculated. The file segment corresponds to a portion of an item of multimedia content being delivered via the data streaming session. The encoding rate of the data streaming session is then calculated based at least in part on the size of the file segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yongdong Zhao, Yali Liu, Zhengye Liu, Zuxian Guo
  • Patent number: 10394939
    Abstract: A method includes determining whether an electronic source link of a curated item is broken. In response to the electronic source link not being broken, the method includes determining whether linked content at the electronic source link is consistent with a version of a document originally accessed on which the curated item is based (item document). In response to the linked content not being consistent with the item document, the method includes locating an alternative item or an alternative source for an inconsistent source link. In response to the electronic source link being broken, the method includes locating an alternative item or an alternative source for a broken source link. Following an expiration date of the curated item, the method also includes locating updated content that is relevant to the curated item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuro Watanabe, Jun Wang, Kanji Uchino
  • Patent number: 10356094
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, a device, and/or a system of uniqueness and auditing of a data resource through an immutable record of transactions in a hash history. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining uniqueness of a “data organism” that has a hash history, referred to as a hastory, forming a unique identity based on previous transactions in which the data organism participated. The method may be usable to verify an original of the data organism, control copies, transfer ownership and/or audit the datastore. The hastory includes a set of blocks in a sequential chain, each block including a transaction record. A root hash is unique within the datastore for a given data within each block and a given block order of the sequential chain. A transaction record is deposited as a new block in the sequential and the root hash is re-calculated to evolve identity of the data organism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventors: Dhryl Anton, Michael McFall
  • Patent number: 10353702
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating signatures for source code elements. One of the methods includes generating a respective signature for each source code element of the plurality of source code elements, including obtaining a name of the source code element, obtaining one or more of a location of a compilation unit containing the source code element and contents of the compilation unit containing the source code element, and generating the signature including combining a first representation of the name of the source code element and one or more of a second representation of the location of the compilation unit and a third representation of the contents of the compilation unit containing the source code element, wherein at least two of the plurality of source code elements have a same name and different respective signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Semmle Limited
    Inventors: Max Schaefer, Julian Tibble, Pavel Avgustinov
  • Patent number: 10331318
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to applying image enhancements. In some implementations, a method includes providing a selection of image enhancements to a user. The method also includes causing the image enhancements to be displayed as a collection of icons, where the collection includes icons representing different image enhancements, and where one or more of the image enhancements are applied to one or more images. The method also includes enabling the user to select any icon in the collection in order to modify the collection, where the selected icon has a corresponding selected image enhancement. The method also includes hiding icons associated with image enhancements that are subsequent image enhancements relative to the selected image enhancement. The method also includes deactivating the subsequent image enhancements corresponding to the hidden icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Nils Kokemohr
  • Patent number: 10331655
    Abstract: A database system may maintain a plurality of log records at a distributed storage system. Each of the plurality of log records may be associated with a respective change to a data page. Upon detection of a coalesce event for a particular data page, log records linked to the particular data page may be applied to generate the particular data page in its current state. Detecting the coalesce event may be a determination that the number of log records linked to the particular data page exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag Windlass Gupta, Pradeep Jnana Madhavarapu, Laurion Darrell Burchall, Neal Fachan
  • Patent number: 10325212
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a prediction are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of time-based documents; receiving a user query including a time period of interest defining a subset of the time-based documents from which to generate a prediction; and a plurality of cloud-based software agents classifying the subset of the plurality of time-based documents into a plurality of classes for the plurality entities, wherein the plurality of cloud-based software agents intercommunicate using distributed processing, wherein each of the plurality of cloud-based software agents is dedicated to one of the entities in the plurality of entities; and generating, using at least one machine learning method, the prediction based on the subset of the plurality of time-based documents for at least one of a plurality of categories. However, other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Insideview Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhay Kumar Paliwal, Vedula Vijaya Saradhi, Jason Muldoon
  • Patent number: 10311390
    Abstract: A commit event to a database table of a first set of database tables, of a distributed database system, can be detected. The first set of database tables can have a set of first table characteristic and the commit event can have a set of commit event characteristics. The commit event can be correlated to a database table of a second set of database tables based on the set of commit event characteristics. The commit event can be assigned a state based on the correlation of the commit event to a database table of the second set of database tables. First and second documents associated with the commit event can be generated. The second document can be based on the state of the commit event and can include adjustment information associated with the commit event and the first document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Stefan Walz, Joachim Liebler, Birgit Oettinger, Martin Vogt, Frank Emminghaus
  • Patent number: 10303651
    Abstract: A system includes reception of an instruction to load data associated with an archiving object and an archiving session into a database system, determination of an archive file associated with the archiving object and the archiving session, determination of one or more database tables of the database system and fields of the one or more database tables associated with the archive file, automatic generation of processor-executable code of a subroutine pool based on the fields of the one or more database tables, and execution of the processor-executable code of the subroutine pool to read one or more data objects of the archive file, populate one or more internal tables based on records of the one or more data objects, and insert the one or more internal tables into corresponding ones of the one or more database tables of the database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Victor Silva Guisado
  • Patent number: 10296195
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for creating custom user interface (“UI”) controls. A networked computing service may determine that an action performed by a user of the service is likely to be repeated, based on previous actions performed by the user and/or other users, parameters of the action including characteristics of an item associated with the action, and other criteria. The networked computing service may generate, or recommend generation of, a custom UI control that automates performance of the action. The networked computing service may automatically determine parameters of the action, and may determine alternative parameters and/or alternative actions if the action cannot be performed using the determined parameters. Custom UI controls may be associated with various computing devices and/or other electronic devices, and categories of custom UI controls may be determined and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Josef Andrizzi, Kara Cavallaro, Jai Prakash Chabria, Nicole Dare, Kenneth DeLand, Nirav Praful Desai, Anindya Guha, Marc Hensley, Douglas James Herrington, Samuel Stevens Heyworth, Apoorva Iyer, Nitish Kumar, Hannah McClellan Richards, Jae Park, Amir Pelleg, Jessica Protasio, Daniel Benjamin Rausch, Laura Allison Ridlehoover, Jeffrey Rosenberg, John Shaw, Paul Warren Smart, Amirali Virani
  • Patent number: 10296750
    Abstract: Users are authorized to access tagged metadata in a provider network. A revision control and binding mechanism may be applied to tagged metadata that is added or modified by the user. A recommendation pertaining to security and compliance for the computing resource may be determined based on an analysis of the computing resource, scoring criteria, and data pertaining to customer and system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hart Matthew Rossman
  • Patent number: 10282307
    Abstract: Shared hash map implementations provide a linearizable programmatic interface to calling threads and support lock-free hash map operations. In addition to supporting lock-free operation, the shared hash map implementations are especially useful where the hash map is stored in a fixed-sized memory location such as, for example, in a shared memory segment, or in other situations where resizing the hash map is impractical or not desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Escriva
  • Patent number: 10277541
    Abstract: A communications platform (Centerpost) is disclosed containing a message processing platform along with an XML message format (SmartMessage) which provides for the reception, organization, summarization, filing, storage, synthesis, routing, formatting, and intelligent processing of XML-based electronic messages and SMTP electronic mail from corporations and other senders to fully integrate individuals' existing e-mail boxes, cellular telephones, paging equipment, facsimile machines, wireless and wired telephones, and other devices. The Centerpost platform utilizes a nickname-based routing to enable device specific sending without knowledge of the specific device address. The Centerpost platform provides sender-defined information folios, which enable synthesized filing, viewing and storage of all received SmartMessages, and the platform allows semi-private access control for the user, which allows access by others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: West Notifications, Inc.
    Inventors: Juergen Stark, Craig Goren
  • Patent number: 10262050
    Abstract: According to one aspect, methods and systems are provided for selectively employing storage engines in a distributed database environment. The methods and systems can include a processor configured to execute a plurality of system components, wherein the system components comprise an operation prediction component configured to determine an expected set of operations to be performed on a portion of the database; a data format selection component configured to select, based on at least one characteristic of the expected set of operations, a data format for the portion of the database; and at least one storage engine for writing the portion of the database in the selected data format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: MongoDB, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Bostic, Michael Cahill, Eliot Horowitz, Dan Pasette, Mathias Stearn, Geert Bosch
  • Patent number: 10255227
    Abstract: A social media video system provides for the authoring, archiving, and/or delivering of interactive social media videos. A social media video includes one or more media assets, which may be images, video clips, music clips, text verbiages, or the like. A social media video may be associated with a style profile that provides visual and/or aural effects that are pleasing, to a social media video viewer. The social media video system maintains social media videos in a template format, and may defer the rendering of a social media video until it is selected for viewing. The maintaining of social media videos in template format allows for efficient transmission and editing of social media videos. A social media video that is created and shared by one user may be modified and be shared again. In this way, users can collaborate to create, critique, and iterate social media videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Hans T. Ku, Edwin R. Leonard, David M. Koenig, Gene Z. Ragan
  • Patent number: 10248352
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method performed by a computer system for managing a location of an object in a hierarchical storage that includes a plurality of storage layers. In the method, the computer system receives a selection of one storage layer for storing a selected object from among the plurality of the storage layers via a network connected to the computer system. The computer system also moves the selected object to the one storage layer from other storage layer currently that stores the selected object among the plurality of the storage layers. The computer system further excludes the selected object from targets of a predetermined space management that is being applied to objects in the hierarchical storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Hasegawa, Hiroshi Itagaki, Sosuke Matsui, Shinsuke Mitsuma, Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Noriko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10235215
    Abstract: A memory lock mechanism within a multi-processor system is disclosed. A lock control section is initially assigned to a data block within a system memory of the multiprocessor system. In response to a request for accessing the data block by a processing unit within the multiprocessor system, a determination is made by a memory controller whether or not the lock control section of the data block has been set. If the lock control section of the data block has been set, the request for accessing the data block is denied. Otherwise, if the lock control section of the data block has not been set, the lock control section of the data block is set, and the request for accessing the data block is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Ravi K. Arimilli, Guy L. Guthrie, William J. Starke
  • Patent number: 10235402
    Abstract: One or more grids of redundancy coded shards, such as those stored or otherwise represented on grid encoded storage systems, are combinable or extensible. For example, a generator matrix of a redundancy code may be configured so as to have a sufficient number of fields to generate a grid. The generator matrix may initially be used to generate smaller grids, which can be combined into the target grid without re-encoding most or all of the data represented thereon. In some cases, vertically derived shards of the input grids may be combined using, e.g., matrix addition, which may then be directly allocated to the target grid, while data shards and horizontally derived shards may be allocated to the target grid with no further transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul David Franklin, Adam Frederick Brock, James Caleb Kirschner, Bryan James Donlan
  • Patent number: 10228913
    Abstract: A method of managing software design specifications with functional rule versioning may include storing references to a plurality of software components in a database system, and storing references to a plurality of functional rules in the database system. In some embodiments, the functional rules may define behaviors that may be assigned to the plurality of software components. The method may also include receiving a selection of one or more software components from the plurality of software components. The one or more software components may define a software product. The method may additionally include receiving assignments of the plurality of functional rules to the one or more software components, and providing an interface for navigating through the one or more software components and editing the assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shibhu Nambiar, Rohit Lobo Prabhu, Manjula Evans, Suman Guha
  • Patent number: 10229284
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises creating and storing, one or more data objects; wherein a first plurality of the data objects is associated with a base set of data representing data shared across a plurality of users; wherein a second plurality of the data objects is associated with one or more child sets of data, wherein each of the child sets of data represents data local to a project, wherein each of the users is associated with one or more of the child sets of data; wherein each data object is associated to an identifier value and to a version identifier value for a plurality of versions of the data object, wherein each of the versions represents a change to the data object by any of a plurality of users; receiving a request from a first user to view a third plurality of data objects; selecting, based on the base set of data, the particular set of data, the version identifier value for the data objects in the third plurality, and one or more rules associated with the particular set of data and the f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. McGrew, Nathan Gettings, Stephen Cohen
  • Patent number: 10228986
    Abstract: In embodiments, apparatuses, computer-readable media, and methods for interface-adaptive data exchange may be described. A sender and a receiver may communicate using different versions of a data exchange interface. A serializer may be configured to obtain data generated according to a first version of the data exchange interface and to write data to a communication medium for communication to the receiver such that it may be understood by the receiver based on the receiver's version of the data exchange interface. The serializer may be configured to omit one or ones of data that may be not be understood by the receiver based on the receiver's version of the data exchange interface. In some embodiments, the serializer may omit one or ones of data which are not permitted in the current context according to the interface definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: AGILEDELTA, INC.
    Inventor: John C. Schneider
  • Patent number: 10222962
    Abstract: Examples are directed to selective editing of digital images using editing tools having persistent tool settings. A source image is opened as a target image in an image editing application. Once opened in the image editing application, the target image includes a plurality of image layers. Visual elements of the target image file are then edited using tools in the image editing application. For each tool used, a tool identifier and the relevant tool settings are saved and associated with the corresponding layer in a target image file. Upon closing and later re-opening the target image file, the saved tool identifier and tool settings are presented for display for further image editing in subsequent user sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Bedi, Sourabh Gupta, Saurabh Gupta
  • Patent number: 10212055
    Abstract: A method to dynamically group devices based on device information, which is associated with a system for monitoring the device information that communicates information between a device and an enterprise. Information is collected from a device information source to obtain an actual status of a device. The actual status of the device is compared to a stored status of the device. The stored status is stored on a server of the enterprise. The enterprise determines if the actual status has been changed from the stored status. When a change is detected, the method performs at least one of the acts of automatically disassociating the device from a group that reflects the stored status and automatically associating the device with a new group to reflect the actual status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: PTC Inc.
    Inventors: David Patrick Hart, John Louis Taylor
  • Patent number: 10169389
    Abstract: A computer system identifies an information set stored at a data store. The computer system then identifies first metadata that includes first instructions indicating how the information set is to present a plurality of data items, and second pre-existing metadata that includes second instructions indicating how the information set is to present the plurality of data items. The computer system determines that a portion of the first metadata will override a portion of the second metadata, to create combined metadata. The computer system provides the combined metadata to the information set, including combining the second metadata with the first metadata by at least overriding the second instructions of the second metadata with the first instructions of the first metadata. The computer system presents the plurality of data items in accordance with the second metadata, at least as modified by the first instructions of the first metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Christopher Bloesch, Siddharth Jayadevan, James R. Flynn, Antony Scott Williams
  • Patent number: 10169396
    Abstract: Embodiments regard maintaining data consistency between transactional and non-transactional data stores. Embodiments may include receiving a request to archive a set of data stored in a first data store, recording a high water mark in the first data store for the set of data, and archiving the set of data. Archiving the set of data may include copying the set of data into a second data store and inserting a high water mark for the set of data in the first data store and the second data store. Embodiments may further include updating a reference high water mark upon successful completion of operations for the archiving of the data, the reference high water mark representing completion of a last successful archive operation, and, upon receiving a query for requested data contained in the first or second data store, determining whether to allow viewing of the requested data based at least in part on a current value of the reference high water mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Seth John White
  • Patent number: 10169408
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for non-disruptive complex variable calculations in online environments, such as real time or near-real time transaction processing utilizing non-disruptive variable calculation logic and decision table array inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: The Travelers Indemnity Company
    Inventors: Syam S. Murikipudi, Christine L. Steben
  • Patent number: 10169348
    Abstract: A processing device identifies a path name of a file that is stored in a file system and sends an extended attribute request comprising the path name to a server computer system to identify a physical location of the file in the file system. The file system includes a virtual extended attributes that identify the physical location of the file that corresponds to the path name in the request. The processing device receives a response from the server computer system indicating the physical location of the file in the file system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Venky Shankar, Vijay Bellur
  • Patent number: 10162628
    Abstract: A data analysis and transformation engine provides a service that automatically analyzes, formats, and/or reviews changes made to collection of artifacts stored in one or more source control systems in accordance with a user's instructions in a coordinated manner. A user subscribes to the data analysis and transformation engine with instructions on the user's preference for formatting, reviewing, and analyzing an artifact after the artifact was modified and checked into a source control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Laurence Jack Golding, Michael C. Fanning, Srivatsn Narayanan, Jinu Joseph, Gen Lu, David Andrew Knise
  • Patent number: 10146515
    Abstract: A software developer tool allows for live code updates (LCU) while an application is running using an execution platform. The LCU update service operates by preemptively, automatically rewriting bytecode to introduce a layer of indirection that swaps out the code of a running application to make it easy to dynamically update whenever the code is changed. The indirection includes both new “representation” classes (and constituent fields and methods), and also replacing constructs that are hard-coded into the bytecode with more flexible constructs such as representation object maps and a dynamic global class table. All manner of code modifications are handled including adding, removing and modifying fields and methods of classes, and changing the class hierarchy. This includes arbitrary code changes, ensuring that when a developer changes a class, all objects of or related to that class are instantly updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventor: Sameer Sundresh
  • Patent number: 10146522
    Abstract: A software developer tool allows for live code updates (LCU) while an application is running using an execution platform. The LCU update service operates by preemptively, automatically rewriting bytecode to introduce a layer of indirection that swaps out the code of a running application to make it easy to dynamically update whenever the code is changed. The indirection includes both new “representation” classes (and constituent fields and methods), and also replacing constructs that are hard-coded into the bytecode with more flexible constructs such as representation object maps and a dynamic global class table. All manner of code modifications are handled including adding, removing and modifying fields and methods of classes, and changing the class hierarchy. This includes arbitrary code changes, ensuring that when a developer changes a class, all objects of or related to that class are instantly updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventor: Sameer Sundresh
  • Patent number: 10129361
    Abstract: A system and method for supporting multi-version remote function execution control in a distributed computing environment is provided. Remote functions are provided with a version identifier which uniquely identifies the version of the remote function. The version identifier can be a digest of the class definition of the remote function. The version identifier is used by an executor and/or class loader to ensure execution of correct class versions when on a node in a distributed computing environment. The definitive identification of class versions also provides for conditional transmission of class definition thereby reducing communication overhead for distribution of remote functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harvey Raja, Gene Gleyzer, Aleksandar Seovic
  • Patent number: 10120869
    Abstract: A device and method for providing a fault-tolerant file system. The fault-tolerant file system attempts to minimize the number of writes used when updating file system data structures. In one embodiment, file system data, including file system metadata, is stored in a fault-tolerant tree including a working state and a transacted state. In one embodiment, a change list is used to track blocks that have been updated, instead of cascading updates to leaf nodes up the tree, and a delta block is used to further minimize block updates when adding or removing nodes from the tree. In one embodiment, a Q-Block is used to prevent cycles when adding and removing free blocks from an allocation tree. Metadata values are stored in the tree in a way that allows certain metadata values to be inferred when not present in the tree, thus conserving space and lowering query time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Datalight, Incorporated
    Inventors: Brandon Thomas, Jeremy Glenn Sherrill
  • Patent number: 10108625
    Abstract: A method for merging transactions for execution by a database management system. The method includes a computer processor receiving a database query that is comprised of a plurality of transactions. The method further includes a computer processor placing each of the plurality of transactions, of the database query, in respective chronological order, in a scheduling queue. The method further includes a computer processor determining that at least a first transaction and a second transaction within the plurality of transactions each contains one or more transaction delineation descriptions. The method further includes computer processor responding to the determination that the first transaction and the second transaction, within the plurality of transactions, each contains one or more transaction delineation descriptions, and merging the first transaction and the second transaction to create a merged transaction combination and merging also includes combining two or more table-scan operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Bendel, Oliver Benke
  • Patent number: 10108623
    Abstract: A method for merging transactions for execution by a database management system. The method includes a computer processor receiving a database query that is comprised of a plurality of transactions. The method further includes a computer processor placing each of the plurality of transactions, of the database query, in respective chronological order, in a scheduling queue. The method further includes a computer processor determining that at least a first transaction and a second transaction within the plurality of transactions each contains one or more transaction delineation descriptions. The method further includes computer processor responding to the determination that the first transaction and the second transaction, within the plurality of transactions, each contains one or more transaction delineation descriptions, and merging the first transaction and the second transaction to create a merged transaction combination and merging also includes combining two or more table-scan operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Bendel, Oliver Benke
  • Patent number: 10102398
    Abstract: A method for obfuscating data includes: reading values occurring in one or more fields of multiple records from a data source; storing a key value; for each of multiple of the records, generating an obfuscated value to replace an original value in a given field of the record using the key value such that the obfuscated value depends on the key value and is deterministically related to the original value; and storing the collection of obfuscated data including records that include obfuscated values in a data storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Ab Initio Technology LLC
    Inventor: Peter Neergaard
  • Patent number: 10095501
    Abstract: Techniques are described for managing updates across one or more targets using standard software images. In one embodiment, a first version of a software application is deployed on a set of one or more targets. A software binary is then generated for an updated version of the software application. The software binary for the updated version of the software application is deployed to the set of one or more targets. While the software binary for the updated version of the software application is deployed, the previous version of the software application remains active on a particular target. The updated version of the software application is activated, using the software binary, on the particular target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Balasubrahmanyam Kuchibhotla, Bharat Paliwal, Srivatsan Vijayaraghavan, Shachi Sanklecha, Abhishek Sureshkumar
  • Patent number: 10089080
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically optimized statistical analysis by computer is disclosed. Given a programmatic definition of the data model, the system generates, manages, and interfaces optimized computer code for use by higher level client applications. The method by which the computer generated code is transparently compiled and linked for remote access by clients provides near peak numerical efficiency without any human optimization in the client space. The configuration of model subsystems is designed to allow flexible general purpose analytics as well as specialized machine learning through optimizing feedback mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: IFWIZARD Corporation
    Inventor: Dominic Samuel Sellers-Blais
  • Patent number: 10031929
    Abstract: A method of accommodating at least one difference between a first database schema and a second database schema is provided. The method includes receiving a request generated by an application program using a first version of a database schema, and generating a response including a reserved element that corresponds to a custom slot provided in the first version of the database schema. The method further includes communicating the response to the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Alon Cohen, Bhaven Avalani, Zahid N. Ahmed
  • Patent number: 10018978
    Abstract: An electronic operator interface based controller and device automatic downloads are provided. An electronic operator interface can determine if control logic or content used by an industrial controller has been updated, changed, or otherwise modified. If the content has been modified, then the electronic operator interface can automatically obtain the content and store a back-up copy in memory. Additionally or alternatively, the electronic operator interface can periodically update a backup copy of the content. Furthermore, the electronic operator interface can determine if the controller has lost its content, and restore the content from the most recent version saved in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Bliss, Brian R. Oulton
  • Patent number: 10001935
    Abstract: According to certain aspects, an information management cell can include at least one secondary storage computing device configured to conduct primary data generated by at least one client computing device to a secondary storage device(s) as part of secondary copy operations, wherein the secondary storage computing device normally operates to conduct primary data to the secondary storage device(s) for storage as a secondary copy in a first secondary copy file format, at the direction of a main storage manager; and can include a failover storage manager configured to activate in response to loss of connectivity between the cell and the main storage manager, and instruct a secondary copy application to perform a secondary copy operation in which the primary data generated by the at least one client computing device is stored as a secondary copy in a second secondary copy file format different than the first secondary copy file format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Parag Gokhale, Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Amey Vijaykumar Karandikar, Manoj Kumar Vijayan
  • Patent number: 9992279
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managed object replication and delivery redirects, directly or indirectly, a client's request for an object that is not available at a best or optimal handling edge server of a network to a parent server that has the requested object. So, where the requested object is not available at the handling edge server, the client's request is redirected directly to the parent server that can provide the requested object to the client or indirectly via one or more parent servers to a parent server that can provide the requested object to the client. The method, system and computer program product further intelligently replicates the object to the edge server if the object is popular enough. Likewise, an object is removed from an edge server when it is no longer popular. All redirection and replication operations are preferably transparent to the end-user and do not degrade the quality of service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Steven L. Seed, Kevin Hobbs, Shane M. Glynn, Isaac W. Foraker, Peter J. Jones, Homer H. Chen, William Patrick Greer
  • Patent number: 9977818
    Abstract: A computing device sorts a plurality of data points in a first dimension. A first data point has a first value, a second data point has a second value, and a third data point has a third value defined in a second dimension. (a) The second value is compared to the first and third values. (b) When the second value is less than the first value and greater than the third value, or the second value is greater than the first value and less than the third value, the data point is deleted. (c) The first data point is defined as the second data point. (d) The second data point is defined as the third data point. (e) The third data point is defined as a next data point. (a)-(e) are repeated until each of the plurality of data points is defined as the third data point to define a plurality of sampled data points as remaining data points of the plurality of data points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Vineet Raina, Swapnil Daga
  • Patent number: 9971994
    Abstract: A method for using an undo stack to explore past actions and apply new actions to previous states in a data view. The method includes detecting a change in an application data view. The application then displays an undo stack and stores the data change in the application data view to the undo stack. Upon detecting a selection of the undo stack entry for undo, the application returns the application data view to the state represented by the undo stack entry. The method further includes providing a user interface allowing a user to perform operations on undo stack entries. Responsive to the user utilizing the user interface and making selections, the application then adjusts the application data view state based on the performed actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ilse M. Breedvelt-Schouten, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz, John A. Lyons
  • Patent number: 9971706
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing object versioning in a storage system may support the logical deletion of stored objects. In response to a delete operation specifying both a user key and a version identifier, the storage system may permanently delete the specified version of an object having the specified key. In response to a delete operation specifying a user key, but not a version identifier, the storage system may create a delete marker object that does not contain object data, and may generate a new version identifier for the delete marker. The delete marker may be stored as the latest object version of the user key, and may be addressable in the storage system using a composite key comprising the user key and the new version identifier. Subsequent attempts to retrieve the user key without specifying a version identifier may return an error, although the object was not actually deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason G. McHugh, Praveen Kumar Gattu, Michael A. Ten-Pow, Derek Ernest Denny-Brown, II
  • Patent number: 9965268
    Abstract: This invention prevents rollback of firmware of an information processing apparatus. The apparatus including a security chip includes a counter which holds a value which monotonically increases, a version management unit which manages a current version number of software in the apparatus, a first verification unit which verifies validity of update software of the software and a version number of the update software, a rollback detection unit which detects whether a version of the update software is newer than a version of the current software, an update unit which updates the software using the update software, and a second verification unit which verifies whether the update unit has successfully updated the software. If the software has been successfully updated, the version management unit increases the value held in the counter until the value matches the version number of the update software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ayuta Kawazu